Wig out. Kids in. No news is good news for Britney

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The crazy pink wig hasn't been seen
for weeks, late night dashes to the psychiatric ward have
ceased and there are no more pictures without panties. Could no
news finally be good news for Britney Spears?

It has been a barren couple of months for scandal about
Spears, 26, whose life became a front-page disaster in 2007 and
early 2008 when she lost custody of her children, shaved her
head, was seen distinctly underdressed at parties and was twice
hospitalized for psychiatric evaluation.

Out of the limelight and under the guardianship of her
father, Spears appears to be making so much progress that some
people are even talking about a comeback.

"She has almost come back from the dead," said Harvey
Levin, managing editor of celebrity Web site TMZ.com which
still reports on her every move.

"She is happy again, she seems stable. She is seeing her
kids again, she is trying to get her recording career back. The
crazy conduct is not there anymore. She is a different human
being from how she was three months ago," Levin told Reuters.

Apart from a minor traffic incident on April 12 -- the kind
of "fender-bender" experienced by virtually every Angeleno with
a car -- the only recent news about Spears has been good.

She's been regularly working out at the gym and taking
dance classes. She surprised critics with a sassy guest
appearance in the TV sitcom "How I Met Your Mother" and has
been photographed playing happily with her two sons after
striking a visitation deal with ex-husband Kevin Federline.

Spears also has reconciled with her ex-manager Larry
Rudolph, the man who was responsible for taking a 16-year old
kid from Louisiana and making her the world's best known pop
star at the turn of the 21st century.
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